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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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I can eat sushi, pizza, samosas, kebab (kabobs, döner or shawarmas depending on your frame of reference), gyoza/pot stickers/tortellone/pasteczki (or whatever), noodles/ramen/spaghetti, knödeln/kroppkakor and so on and so on. Leaving lots of cultures unsaid.

I can enjoy music, cringy cultural movies (animated and not), fun cirque sessions (even without animals being endangered), go to festivals for various cultures, enjoin then in our cultures of scouting, mountaineering, hiking and share my love of enjoying nature.

I can drive electric cars, communicate on Internet forums, keep in touch with new friends as well as loved ones across the world.

I would be in a much poorer world without you all.

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[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 36 points 16 hours ago (10 children)

The world would be a lot poorer without the music genres that spawned from the USA and UK, too. And most of those were only possible because people from Africa were (forcefully) brought to the USA.

[–] Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I was gonna say this, but not specific to USA and UK. Other countries have thriving music cultures born of immigration we just don't hear about. Nigeria, for example, had a progressive rock scene in the 70's and it was kinda baller. Check out the Lijadu Sisters.

I've been listening to Creole music all morning as "research" for my next writing project.

Made me think about the volume of information we take in about other cultures through stories, art, music and food without ever opening a history book.

Edited for context and to clarify I don't think slavery was a necessary evil. Because I have to do that now.

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